News from our newspaper (Reporter Wang Jinyue) After "Fireworks in the Day" won the Berlin Golden Bear Award, Diao Yinan's second film "The Gathering at Southern Station" is scheduled to be released nationwide on December 6. On November 22, Diao Yinan and starring Hu Ge appeared at the "Nand One" meeting at the 28th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, sharing their creative experience with the audience.
Diao Yinan said that he spent two years writing the script, and the inspirational imagination and the correspondence between real life stimulated him to create such a movie. The filming process was also very difficult. 85% of them were night scenes. Many extra actors were scheduled to work until the early hours of the morning. "Living a life of darkness, black and white reversed."
said the reasons for choosing Hu Ge, said Diao Yinan , I saw a picture of Hu Ge in a magazine and was moved by his image. "There are many stories behind Hu Ge's face, a very rebellious Hu Ge." Hu Ge recalled that when Director Diao found him, he was right. In a period of confusion at work, "I have been waiting for a good script and a good role." The first time I met with Director Diao, I was very nervous, because I had never tried a movie of this kind before, "I'm afraid I won't be able to finish it, I will drag my legs." When internally competing for the interests of the territory, his team broke out with the other party and embarked on the road to escape because of accidentally killing a policeman. The story of the film is inspired by real news events. Hu Ge felt that the biggest problem in playing this role is to approach the character from the temperament. In order to find the feeling of this character from the inside, he deliberately kept the negative emotions during the shooting, whether it is physical, emotional, or spiritual. "Because I feel anxious, uneasy, or insecure, it fits this role very well." In the
movie, Zhou Zenong walks between two women, Hu Ge analyzes, Zhou Zenong and Yang Shujun (played by Wan Qian) It was a husband and wife relationship. He treated her and her children in the right way he thought. "I imagine Zhou Zenong is a person who has no hope in life, living on the edge every day, until he knows his life is worth 300,000. Discovering the value of life, he gave his wife and children the support he could give.” And the relationship between Zhou Zenong and Liu Aiai (Gui Lunmei) was a strange spark during the flight. “Zhou Zenong is in the end, the more fragile he flees, Liu Aiai is the only person who can connect him to the world. In the end, Zhou Zenong even had some dependence on Liu Aiai.”
In Diao Yinan’s opinion, Zhou Zenong, as a man, finally completed the last-minute salvation of his life, and the two women also I won a victory in this, "This is a story about marginalized people looking for dignity and the meaning of life."
director Cao Baoping also rushed to the scene to watch the movie. He commented that the film is highly completed. Diao Yinan is full of respect. This time the director used voice and modeling to complete the narrative of a movie, which is not easy."
